LE

Ah...sorry, forgot to mention I'm not army, so any QM route might be a bit tricky... Never did get round to doing the TA route, my local unit didn't appear to be that enthusied with a potential officer. Which sucks, but there's always next year when I'm heading off to sunny, sunny Birmingham!

Right, shoe repairer tomorrow. And there is an old fashioned shoe repair place in Milton Keynes, it's just in the dark and dingy bit in the shopping centre!

LE

Don't forget, you need to get the zip first. The zips that a shoe repairer can supply will probably be the sort that is fixed at one end and also will probably be metal. Short of surfing the internet, I can't think off-hand where you will get the right type at the right length.

Then again, it will still fasten on without the zip.

Let us know if you're successful, as I've got an old OG bergen with a similar problem.

LE

Old-Salt

I have a shagged zip, right on the front of my issued bergen..it's a bugger as I have to stick my wash kit/boot stuff in there and it just fly's open at any given time. Lucky I have only lost a few things (minor stuff)

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War Hero

Call me a bluff old traditionalist, but isn't the normal course of action to join the Army first and then start posting on Arrse, using a bergen and all the other military type stuff you seem to be doing ... ?

LE

Call me a bluff old traditionalist, but isn't the normal course of action to join the Army first and then start posting on Arrse, using a bergen and all the other military type stuff you seem to be doing ... ?

Ex-cadet mate, still got my bergan. I'd love to be Army, but gyc didn't quite come off for me this year (broke my hand 3 weeks before the last rcb...) which was a bit irritating. I do like to do outwardbound sorts of activites, but I'm hardly walting it with my request to see if anyone knows how to replace a broken zip!

The only thing "army" I still do would be carrying a bergan on treks, and even then it has a giant big blue waterproof cover over it. I see your point, but it's only a bergan.